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X-energy receives federal tax credit for TRISO fuel facility
Advanced reactor company X-energy has been awarded $148.5 million in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act for construction of its TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Y. Ronen, Y. Dali
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 2 | October 1998 | Pages 239-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A2003
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new concept for a core in a high-conversion reactor is presented. This core consists of tight lattice fuel elements enriched with plutonium. These fuel elements are made up of layers of higher enrichment (mixed-oxide fuel) and natural uranium; therefore, the core is composed of alternate layers of high- and low-enrichment fuels. The reactor with this core was nicknamed "Big Mac."Due to spectral effects and leakage into and out of the different zones, it was found that this reactor has a high conversion ratio >0.9 with negative void coefficient, a relatively long fuel cycle, with 6% average fissile plutonium enrichments. Several interesting spectral effects were found and analyzed.
